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noun
- 1. a stately dance in slow duple time, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and performed in elaborate clothing.
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The pavane ( pə-VAN;, padovana;) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance). The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza's Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto in 1508, is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th-century basse danse. Wikipedia